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>as he posts picture with memegenerator watermark

"We vote red, you vote blue" is missing crucial context. "My family votes red even though we're in a solid blue state on the west coast, while your family votes blue in a solid red state on the east" is not saying "We vote red (because we are better), you vote blue (because you are worse)" it's simply going for the "we're both strangers/outcasts" theme, especially because the very next line is "A strange coincidence we have". If what you say is true and he is saying "we vote red because we're better and you vote blue because you're worse" then what the hell is the coincidence he mentions?

This type of discussion is, incidentally, why shitposts by people with anime avatars unironically have a greater rhetorical power in the realm of politics than actual discussion of the issues. There's not enough common ground between people for them to come to any meaningful sort of consensus, and even if there were most people (even most intelligent people) aren't moved by dialectic argument anyway (as even Aristotle observed over 2000 years ago).

If he'd left it there, sure. "Your parents made bad choices and my parents' were good because my parents have different political views and I have never suffered any hardship in my life because my parents love me (but yours didn't that's why their divorce was rough) here's some advice" is pretty close to the cuntiest thing Caveson has ever said, and he has some strong contenders. I've given up on engaging him when he starts acting like this and I'm not sure why other people haven't already as well. He comes into a thread ENTIRELY IGNORANT of the topic of discussion (but knowing he disagrees with everyone else because he's a ball of preconceived notions), asks questions about the subject, gives up discussion after people do his god damn research for him and then starts crying about how the libruls are ruining this country and he's had it so much better than everyone else because his mommy and daddy are great. He's fine to interact with in the first half of this cycle but y'all need to stop feeding him in that second half.

I'm disappointed, reading the responses I thought Cave's comment was going to be more like "If you make less than $100,000 per annum you should be thrown in the fucking electroshock chamber" or "I bottle the tears of poorfags and drink them with my caviar-encased filet mignon" instead of the extremely mild-mannered (and lame) "Most people can escape poverty if they really try and make good decisions, although some of course never can and I feel sympathy for those people." You can argue that he's clinging on to a relic of the past and that things have changed (which to a certain extent is true) but damn he's basically just being a well-meaning dad. And at any rate "You can escape poverty if you try" is monumentally better life advice than "Give up, you'll never make it."

Personally, I think that the current political framework of "liberty and equality" as opposed to "authority and duty" naturally leads to a form of ingrained sociopathy. The only question is which form it takes. More specifically, liberty and equality are incoherent notions on a grand political scale; absent an anarchy a government must always take some action which restricts someone's liberty (and even in an anarchy powerful thugs can do much the same thing), and perfect equality is neither obtainable nor desirable. But if you have those goals as your basis for your political thought you can't admit this, and thus must pretend that things which would seem to be unliberal or unequal actually are liberal and equal. Individuals will resolve the paradox by making unprincipled exceptions, but they will do so in different places. And when people who have made disagreeing unprincipled exceptions encounter each other, they will not be able to interact beyond calling the other a monster or an asshole. You can't have a pleasant conversation where you reason through positions that have buried logical inconsistencies, after all.

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